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Elon Musk announced the entire codebase of X/Twitter will be going open source (media.thebrainbin.org)
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Elon Musk announced the entire codebase of X/Twitter will be going open source

Source: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2077361679034118271

Nitter bridge: https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/elonmusk/status/2077361679034118271#m

#opensource #twitter

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Didn't he already do this early 20's and then never update it past the original commit? Or was that only the algorithm.

[–] fr0g@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

Something like that. I remember people finding the part of the code that upranks Elon's posts, so the algorithm seems to have been there/included.